Selection bias. You don't spend any time thinking about the occasions when inaction was the right choice, because they seem unremarkable from everyday events.
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The other day I saw some dude throw his cigarette on the ground before getting on line in front me to get carded to enter a bar. For a long moment I considered picking it up and going "hey, you dropped this" and handing it back to him.
But I didn't, because there's no way that ends happily.
But man, fuck people who litter.
Gently place it in his back pocket.
Meh. Do I regret some of my inactions? Hell, I do. Do I regret some of my awful moves/decisions 400% more? I fucking do. The amount of cringeworthy brain cramps I get for just thinking of them for a split second make me wish they were just another one of my regretful inactions, instead.
I once heard cringing at your past self is a sign of personal growth!
Maybe the first time for a particular instance. The 100th time it's just depression with visuals.
It’s only depression if it comes from the depression region in France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling self loathing
Thanks, I must be a titan then.
My greatest regrets are all actions that ended up hurting someone. Even the inactions I regret most are related to not preventing pain which I had the power to do something about.
I think this post is talking about a different kind of regret or comes from someone with very different life experience than me.
Yeah same, the things that haunt me are the things that hurt other people. That's not to say fomo isn't real, but it isn't what keeps me up at night.
Fuck that, I look forward to the inaction. I only do shit to facilitate not doing shit later!
This guy shits
But not till later
Eh, depends.
Doing nothing feels good now tho
Reminds me of that woman in Germany who jumped into the polar bear enclosure at the Berlin zoo to swim with the bears.
Gonna guess that didn't go well for her?
kind of bullshit for children?
As someone who is only alive today because of all the suicide attempts I didn't make, respectfully shove this up your ass.
As lord Buddha once said:
Make dumb unfunny unhelpful shitposts, get treated like a shithead.
Funny how that works.
I mean, why are you browsing a shitpost community then?
Oh, you don't like my comment? Why did you read it? Why did you reply to it?
See, that's how dumb that take sounds.
This exchange is pretty much exactly what I always assume interacting with a Blahaj would be like, which is why I usually go out of my way not to do so.
Uh… ditto? You clearly don’t like my comment and you replied to it.
On top of that, you’re still pissy that someone posted shitpost content in an actual shitpost community.
You caught me, I posted this to the public shitpost community specifically to piss off you, a total stranger! You should probably take it personally XD
May we be better strangers in the future!